¹ Yahweh said to Moses,

² "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God.

³ You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.

⁴ You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.

⁵ You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

⁶ "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

⁷ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

⁸ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.

⁹ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.

¹⁰ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.

¹¹ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.

¹² "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.

¹³ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

¹⁴ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.

¹⁵ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

¹⁶ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

¹⁷ "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

¹⁸ "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

¹⁹ "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

²⁰ "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

²¹ "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.

²² "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

²³ "'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

²⁴ "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

²⁵ The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

²⁶ You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

²⁷ (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

²⁸ that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

²⁹ "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

³⁰ Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"

¹ It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,

² and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

³ that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

⁴ If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back:

⁵ and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.

⁶ Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

⁷ Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

⁸ You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.

⁹ Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

¹⁰ if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

¹¹ For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.

¹² It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?"

¹³ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?"

¹⁴ But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

¹⁵ Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;

¹⁶ in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

¹⁷ But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

¹⁸ I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;

²⁰ to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.